ASUS A7V8X Mainboard - Ethernet Controller
R. Kummler
my Asus A7V8X is equipped with the Broadcom 10/100 Mbps controller
option. Currently I do not know which network driver to load.
The bcm5700 driver is not loaded, it seems to be applicable only
for the 1 Gbps version.
Is there a relation to the new Southbridge VIA VT8235 which is not
correctly identified (only the older VT8233) during the boot period?
I tried to install a newer driver version 0.9 from the VIA support
area supporting this new chip but I was not successful.
My kernel version is 2.4.18.
Thank you for your help.
Roland
Richard Adams
wrote:
To be honest i have never heard of this Ethernet device, but what does
the command lspci -v say about the ethernet device, you will also see
more info on the Southbridge with lspci.
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> Thank you for your help.
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> Roland
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Regards Richard
pa3...@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
Roland Kummler
>> Hello,
>>
>> my Asus A7V8X is equipped with the Broadcom 10/100 Mbps controller
>> option. Currently I do not know which network driver to load. The
>> bcm5700 driver is not loaded, it seems to be applicable only for the 1
>> Gbps version.
>>
>> Is there a relation to the new Southbridge VIA VT8235 which is not
>> correctly identified (only the older VT8233) during the boot period? I
>> tried to install a newer driver version 0.9 from the VIA support area
>> supporting this new chip but I was not successful.
>>
>> My kernel version is 2.4.18.
>
>
> To be honest i have never heard of this Ethernet device, but what does
> the command lspci -v say about the ethernet device, you will also see
> more info on the Southbridge with lspci.
>
>
below you may find the relevant sections.
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device 3189
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 807f
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=64M]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 2.0
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc.: Unknown device b168 (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: f2000000-f35fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: f3700000-f7ffffff
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4401 (rev 01)
Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a8
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
Memory at f1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Expansion ROM at f36f0000 [disabled] [size=16K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Richard Adams
<Roland....@arcor.de> wrote:
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4401
> (rev 01)
> Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a8 Flags:
> bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 Memory at f1000000
> (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Expansion ROM at f36f0000
> [disabled] [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management
> version 2
I cant really comment on the other chips, even lspci does not help me.
The ethernet device should be documented in the Mobo's book, does it
state what chipset it uses,? or can you even see what chipset it is on
the mobo, to be honest i am at a loss here, however i would susspect that
it will be a compatable chip allowing you to use one or another gerneric
driver.
I took a look at asus.com all they say is broadband ethernet controller,
however i think you will want to visit the following URL
http://www.broadcom.com/
Type linux into the search engine, you can go from there.
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>>> Thank you for your help.
>>>
>>> Roland
>>>
>>>
HASM
> my Asus A7V8X is equipped with the Broadcom 10/100 Mbps controller
> option. Currently I do not know which network driver to load.
> Is there a relation to the new Southbridge VIA VT8235 which is not
> correctly identified (only the older VT8233) during the boot period?
I have the same board and the same problems with network and VIA. I put in
an old 10 Mbps ethernet card to be able to work with it.
I have an ATI Radeon 7500 on the system, and I can either run it in console
mode (RH/init 3) or in X mode (RH/init 5), but can't seem to switch between
them. If I "init 3" and try startx my monitor goes black and never seems to
see a synch signal again, and I can't get back to any console, X or not. If
I "init 5", the Ctl-Alt-Fn leads me to a corrupted x screen (top few lines)
but I can get back to X via Alt-F7.
-- HASM
Tony Hoyle
> In article <3D971FC8...@arcor.de>, "Roland Kummler"
> <Roland....@arcor.de> wrote:
>
> > 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: BROADCOM Corporation: Unknown device 4401
> > (rev 01)
> > Subsystem: Asustek Computer, Inc.: Unknown device 80a8 Flags:
> > bus master, fast devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9 Memory at f1000000
> > (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Expansion ROM at f36f0000
> > [disabled] [size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management
> > version 2
>
Having just spent a day or two on this I've got this to add (hope the
thread isn't too old..)
1. The BCM4401 is *not* compatible with the 570x chipsets. I played
with the tg3 driver for about half a day before realizing that they
could never be compatible - the 570x requires PCI memory exceeding 32K
to work (judging by the locations of some of the configuration
registers) and the 4401 has only 8K.
2. It's not a Tigon-2 either... (spent about half an hour on this).
3. However, Asus bundle a GPL Broadcom driver for this card with their
driver disk. This is the simplest method - the makefile worked 'out
of the box' for me on debian with 2.4.19 - I was quite surprised (and
a bit embarrased) to find this after beating my head against a brick
wall trying to get a generic driver to work...
All the other devices on this mainboard are either standard (firewire,
AC97, USB2) or easy to get working (vt8237 ide - patch widely posted,
agpgart - requires 'agp_try_unsupported'). I'm quite impressed,
actually... I'd expect a new board like this to be a complete 'mare to
set up.
Tony
Velpi
I just can't seem to find it, or maybe I'm looking on the wrong disk...
Velpi
ASUS A7V8X mobo).
The driver works perfectly in SuSE 7.2 (kernel 2.4.4, I think).
http://ftp.leo.org/download/pub/comp/general/devices/asus/lan/broadcom/4401/
download 4401_652.zip
this file contains the linux driver
kind regards
happy *Velps*
Tony Hoyle
> can you tell us where to look for the driver on the disk?
>
> I just can't seem to find it, or maybe I'm looking on the wrong disk...
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The filename is bcm4400-1.0.1.tar.gz
Reinhard Gimbel
Hi all !
The support CD supplied with my system doesn't contain the linux driver
source, too. It seems that there are at least two different support disks
available.
Reinhard.
eric_the_brave
lspci gives the broadcom ethernet contoller as an unknown device....
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4401
(rev 01)
more info at
http://old.lwn.net/2002/0228/a/tigon.php3
HTH.
Tony Hoyle
>lspci gives the broadcom ethernet contoller as an unknown device....
Someone should probably update the pci.ids file...
Since it seems not all Asus disks have the driver on them I've put the tarball
on my website - http://www.nodomain.org/bcm4400-1.0.1.tar.gz
Tony
S. Park
The problem is usually caused by conflict between graphic driver and
console frame buffer. Disable the console frame buffer to see if it
clears the problem.
Regards.
John RS
Raid+lan+audio+usb2+1394 with AMD Athlon Xp 2200+.
I must admit I lost track after the first couple
of technical comments... So, I wonder if it is
still a good choice for linux (Mandrake 9 or Suse
8.1).
I will not buy it if I will struggle to make it
work under linux.
I will try to buy the model without raid and with
serial ata if I manage to find it.
I was also wondering if gigabit ethernet would be
a good option (the pc will be in a 10/100 net).
Any comment would be appreciated.
Regards,
John